Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,829, Oliver Glazier, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Glazier, Oliver
S. 29.829
B.L.W. 9055-160-55-
CONTENTS

1503
Massachusetts Oliver Glazier
of Boston in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Doot of the Regt commanded by Col Speller in the State time for 8 Mos 8 Days
Inscribed on the Roll of Spals at the rate of 27 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Nov 1832 and sent to Dary Worcester Spals
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $ 41.31 Penzant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33. 13.77
$ 55.08
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Spalding Clerk Book D. Vol. 125 Page 54.

73.131
Act Mch 3/55 Apl. 16/55
Oliver Glazier,
Private
Capt. David Moore,
Mass. Mil.
Enl. Disch. 55
Aug 1 Aug 1
War. Revolution
Then a Pensioner of the U. States, Mass. June 22 - 1803
Boylston Private Col. Miller Mass. Line
dis. 160 acc Oct 23/55
Rev. 1803
Rev. 1803
Henry Ray, atty. Present
Vol. G. 77. -

2753
Oliver Glazier Maps
papers not properly authenticated
For John Davis Moorland Maps

BRIEF in the case of  of Boston
Oliver Glazier in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Sixty nine  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17 79 2 8 Private Capt David Morse   80 6 " " St. Col. Mellen  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lancaster now Brighton  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Documentary proof & living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? defective in authentication, Seal not on same sheet as the tape upon the seal as required 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. H. Addison Examining Clerk.

73131.
Glenn Glögen
Oct 1932
Also Ray

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss.
On this third day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County and State of said. Oliver Glazier, aged ninety two years, a resident of Northborough in the State of Massachusetts who, being duly sworn according to law, declared that he is the identical person who was a private in the Company commanded by Capt. David Moore, and continued this service from near the first part of September 1779, that this service was rendered his country in the War of the Revolution from Boylston, in said County and that his service in said war, amounted to more than six months service. That he is now in receipt of a Pension under the Law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, for Twenty seven dollars fifty four cents per annum his certificate now in his possession is dated at the War office of the United States the Fifth day of November A.D. 1832, signed by Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, and recorded in Book D. Vol. 2 - page 54. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the Act approved Mar. 3. 1835. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor. He hereby constitutes and appoints Alexander Rogers of Washington City D.C. his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim.
Oliver his Glazier mark

We Warren B Hale and John Woodis residents of Northboro in the State of Massachusetts Upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Oliver Glazier, in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be. Warren B Hale
John Woodis
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Asa Rice Justice of Peace in and for the County of Worcester aforesaid.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 9, 1853.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Austin Rice was a justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
T. M. Wight
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this 14 th day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two Two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Faine Judge of Probate In the County of Worcester now sitting - Oliver Glazier a resident of West Boylston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In the fall of 1779 in Sept according to the best of my remembrance I entered the service as a militia man at Lancaster in said county and was in a company commanded by David Allen of Bolton, Abraham Dale of Princeton Lt. and marched to Providence, R.I. from thence to Warwick neck, where we remained until the British evacuated Rhode Island when we went to New Port where we remained until discharged being two months & 28 days, having been detached for two months I am not able to tell what regiment we were considered as belonging to, as there was but one company at the time where we were stationed most of the time - I next entered the service in June 1780 and belonged for six months the term of my enlistment to a company commanded by Nathan Dike in the 9th Massachusetts regiment then com- manded by Lt Col Mellen and was discharged at West Point on the 30 th of Dec 1780 which discharge is herewith submitted as evidence that I performed the service - I received no written discharge from the militia service but expect to prove it by others who knew of it
Sworn
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nathl Faine Judge of Probate Oliver Glazier In the County of Worcester

We _____ a Clergyman residing in the _____ and residing in _____ hereby certify that we are well acquainted with _____ who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be _____ years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that _____ who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Jones Probate / a The County of Worcester No. 2. 1733
I Theophilus Wheeler Register, Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Glazier for a pension, and that John Davis & Charles D. Stone are Justices of the peace in the County of Worcester. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of _____ and sealed the 14th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two Theophl Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
I was born in Lancaster, now Boylston May 23. 1763 and have been in- formed that there is a record of it on Lancaster records but never saw it - I went into the service from the place where I was born and have always lived in Boylston & West Boylston adjoining. I entered the service first as a volunteer as I understood it - next I engaged with a com- mittee of Lancaster and enlisted as I understood it - John Temple William Fairbank, John Wain, Seth Fairbank, Nathan Miller and many others were my neighbors who know my character and either actually know that I was in the service or have had the reputation of it. Oliver Glazier

29829 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 29,829
Oliver Glazier
Rev Rev Mr
Act: June 7 th 1894
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 155
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Oliver Glacier S. 29° 29' W 16.00

Oliver Glavin is this Day discharged the 1 st Massachusetts Regiment. —
West Point Dec. 8 th 1780.
James Mellen L t Colonel

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160 Ans

No. 73131
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 16, 1885
Oliver Glazier Rev. War
Warrant 9055-10058
Alf. Ray Present

1932 May 23. Mr. Henry C. Adams adv. no reference to son Jacob. See corres. in Geo. Slazier W. 4208 N.C.S.

Oliver Glazier Boyleton Mass
W.P. 2733
Princ
8 Months & 8 days
Adm. Adm
26 66 88 $27,54
John I. Davis Manchester Mass

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Oliver Glazin which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? He has VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes, IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? He has X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? It is affixed with an inscription whereby it can be distinguished

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? He has documentary proof
XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No, The Seal Not being on same sheet nor tape pasted on as required
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? They are answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Doyleston I Ephraim Corneith of Northborough in the county of Worcester aged 70 years on oath before me say that the statement of Oliver Glazier as to his service in 1779 in the militia in Rhode Island has been read to me and I declare the same to be true as I was a soldier in said company, served and mustered with said Glazier - and he was honorably discharged having served beyond the time for which he was detached Eph m Corneith
Worcester ss. Augt 10. - 1832
Then personally appeared Ephraim Corneith and made oath to the truth of the above statement subscribed by him in my presence - and I certify that he is known known to me and is a credible witness
Eph m Corneith Minton L. Stow Justice of peace

Jason Glazier of West Boylston in the county of Worcester do on oath depose and say that I well remember that during the war of the revolution & I believe in the year 1779 Oliver Glazier who is my brother was detached to go to R. Island for two months and marched for that purpose & some time after the two months had expired returned. It was always said and believed by all that he served his time faithfully and several days more and further the deponent saith not Jason Glazier
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. Augt 8. 1832
Then personally appeared Jason Glazier who subscribed the above in my presence and made oath to the truth of the same. John Davis justice of the peace
West Boylston Aug 10. 1832.
This certifies that Jason Glazier is an inhabitant of this town, with whom I have been acquainted for more than ten years, that I have confidence in his declarations and believe him to be a man of truth & veracity.
J. Boardman, Congregational Minister of W. Boylston.